Larry Wedgewood Scuba Diving Instruction

Managing Your Air Supply as a Buddy Team

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Watch the video above and then answer the quiz questions below

You manage your air supply while diving, but you interact with your buddies as you do so. This is important because people use air at different rates. Someone will always use air the fastest, and someone the slowest. Throughout the dive, you and your buddy(ies) share air supply information, then turn the dive and head back based on the diver who’s using it the fastest.

Quick Quiz

1. In recreational diving, the buddy system means diving with another diver or divers in a team that provides assistance and safety benefits.

2. Overall benefits of the buddy system include (choose all that apply)


 

Section Two

Seeing and Hearing as a Diver

Seeing and Hearing as a Diver

Swimming and Moving

Swimming and Moving

Staying Warm

Staying Warm

Breathing Effectively Underwater

Breathing Effectively Underwater

The Buddy System (continued)

The Buddy System (continued)

Managing Your Air Supply as a Buddy Team

Managing Your Air Supply as a Buddy Team

Swimming at the Surface

Swimming at the Surface

Descents in Open Water

Descents in Open Water

Ascents in Open Water

Ascents in Open Water

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